From the final episode of season 3 of Justified. Marshall Raylan Givens and gangster Bobby Quarles are fighting over the pistol Quarles carries up his sleeve. Mr. Limehouse, in whose slaughterhouse this struggle is taking place, takes his butcher cleaver and takes off Quarles' arm, gun still in hand, in one mighty swing. My favorite part is when Quarles reaches for his severed arm with his good arm and Raylan pulls it away. This is a play on Chekov's rule about if a gun appears in the first act, it must be used in the final act. In this case, we've been expecting Bobby Quarles to use the gizmo up his sleeve since he pulled it on Sammy Tonin and then again on Raylan. He does use the pistol at a pivotal moment, but instead, another weapon that's been foreshadowed, Limehouse's cleaver, gets used.

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